New York QS Show&Tell #4 – Recap

Before the holidays we held our 4th NY QS Show&Tell at Meetup HQ. Thanks to our hosts Scott Heiferman and Camille Alexander from Meetup and a special thanks to our new videographer, Evan Creem.

Self-Tracking ToolsGarfield started us off by describing Jerry Seinfeld’s “don’t break the chain concept” as a success formula for writing a joke a day. He went on to show us a method of using forms and spreadsheets with Google docs and then walked us through one of the best iPhone apps for tracking daily activities, Daily Tracker. Garfield’s presentation on Vimeo.

Get Paid to Lose WeightDavid from HealthWage presented his new venture that ties incentives to behavior change. David showed us several of the self-tracking features of the site to get feedback from the group. David’s presentation on Vimeo.

The Standards ProjectJake Lodwick shared with us his personal experience developing a self-monitoring and goal-setting system to help him address his lack of a sense of what to do each day. This is a fascinating look into self-examination and then doing something about the things we’re unhappy with about ourselves by using self-experimentation and self-tracking methods. Jake’s blog on the project. Jake’s presentation on Vimeo.

Geo-Tracking
Ted Power tapped into InstaMapper for real-time GPS tracking of his cellphone. He has about a year of data that tracks his location every 20 seconds. He showed us a mapping of his daily commute and even a kayak trip down the East River. Ted also pulled the data into Processing to experiment with visualizing it on a map. Ted’s presentation on Vimeo.

One Response to New York QS Show&Tell #4 – Recap

Standards and compensation (Jake & David) from above.
These are two key ingredients that are missing from most of what we spend our days in the office doing. Of course we have standards and compensation for out output, but nothing for the 8 hours a day we spend doing it.
60% of meetings are considered a waste of time. Why don’t we do anything about it. Most of us multi-task even though it is proven to be counterproductive.
I would like to start a company or app that can help us improve the way we work, the way we interact, the way we collaborate. Where is the startup and money to do that? How many billions is wasted at work because we are so bad at the things we take for granted? A meeting, a conference call. A project!
I have written about it a little bit with my colleagues:http://collaborationking.com/standards-meetings-failure
Kevin Kelly- any words of wisdom on how to all collaborate on the givens during the day?

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